Ah, I may have missed that in this long thread, and thought we were talking about new nuclear, apologies. But I also didn't mean to critique your comment, as mu

Ah, I may have missed that in this long thread, and thought we were talking about new nuclear, apologies. But I also didn't mean to critique your comment, as much as riffing on it. I don't see the tribalism as much on HN or other forums, except for Twitter, wheee there appears to be a huuuuge amount of zealous advocates that seem impervious to stats, papers, and discussion. Agreed that existing nuclear should stick around as long as maintenance doesn't get more costly than replacing with other options.